Willis W. Ritter papers, 1918-1977

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ritter, Willis W.
Title
Willis W. Ritter papers
Dates
1918-1977 (inclusive)
Quantity
159 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 0930
Summary
The Willis W. Ritter papers (1918-1977) contains school papers and class notes from the University of Utah, tax returns, legal documents and files, law practice and court administrative records, and personal papers.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Willis W. Ritter was a Utah attorney. He served as chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Willis W. Ritter papers contains school papers and class notes from the University of Utah, tax returns, legal documents and files, law practice and court administrative records, and personal papers.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Donated by the Ritter family in 1986.

Processing Note

Processed by Brent Anderson, Drew Staffanson, Erin McCarthy in 2006.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Park City High, University of Chicago, HarvardReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Graduation Exercises Program
1918
1 2-7
Notes on Sales
1 8
Lyrics
1938
1 9-13
Class Notes
1938-1939
1 14
Student Card
1922

University of UtahReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Future Interest Notes
2 2-17
Analysis of Leach Case Book Notes
3 1
Law School Fliers
1929
3 2
Student Paper
3 3
Notes
3 4
Printed Lecture
1936
3 5
Honor Society Banquet Programs
1949
3 6
Faculty Salary Demands
3 7
Class Schedule Cards
3 8-10
Law Notes
3 11
Ritter Lecture Quotations
3 12
Speech Notes
3 13
Quotes Collection
3 14
Walter Lippman Essay
3 15
Notes
3 23-28
Lecture Notes
4 1
Notes
4 2
Letters
1934-1935
4 3
Lecture
4 4
Geology Papers
4 5-6
News-clippings
1934-1950
4 7-24
Lecture Notes, exams
1921-1948
5 1-7
Notes
1934-1939
5 8-9
Exams
1932-1938
5 10
University Alumni Magazine
1950
5 11-20
Notes on Property
1939
6
Lecture Notes
1938
Folder
7 1-10
Notes of Future Interest
1938
7 11-20
Notes on Trusts
1938-1939
7 21
Universtiy of Chicago Announcements
1924
7 22
Harvard Exams
1906
7 23
Harvard Catalogs
1938-1943
8 1
Professors' Reports
1937
8 2-4
Ritter Lectures
1931-1935
8 5-10
Lecture Notes
8 11
Exams
9
Lecture Notes
1938
10
Tax Briefs, Exams, and Harvard University Correspondence
1938-1947
11
Property Law Lecture Notes and Sylabi
1931-1946
12
Correspondence and Titles and Wills Exams
1931-1952
13
Lecture Notes, Exams, and Court Briefs Instructions
1935-1939
14-15
Lecture Notes on Leach's Law Case Book
1938-1939
16
Lecture Notes and Ethics and Sales Exams
1938-1940
17
Lecture Notes, Speeches, Title Exams, and Harvard University Correspondence
1939-1965

PublicationsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
18
Books-Law
This box contains 13 University of Chicago Notebooks: Equality Pleading, Code Pleading, Partnerships, Property, and Practice.
19
Books-Law
This box contains 11 University of Chicago Notebooks: Evidence, Wills, Corporations, and Professor E. Freund.
20
Books-Law
This box contains 6 University of Chicago Notebooks: Conflicts, Bills, Notes, Bankruptcy, and Contracts.
21
Books-Law
This box contains 6 University of Chicago Notebooks: Future Interests, Torts, Constitutional Law, and Contracts.
22
Books-Law
This box contains a National Geographic, Constitutional Law, Banks Under Roosevelt, U.S. Geological Survey books, and the American Law Institute Circular.
23
Books-Law
This box contains Law of Real Property, Case Trial Practice, Corporate Reorganization and the Federal Court, A Digest of Decisions, International Law Digest, Fundamentals in Federal Taxation, and Annual Examinations in Law.
24
Books-Law
This box includes An Digest of Decisions Under the Federal Safety Appliance and Hours of Servoce Act, Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice In the Supreme Court of the State of Utah, Hodges v. Stewart, and Snake River surveys.
25
Books-Law
This box includes Desk Calender 1964, Day Book (1947), Congressional Directory, misc. pamphlets.
1947-1964
26
Books-Law
This box includes daily dairies (1972-1977), and Geological Surveys.
1972-1977
27
Books-Law
This box includes information on Fundamentals of Federal Taxation, Pamphlets on Property, and Sales.
28
Books-Law
This box includes restatement of Property, various drafts, Tax Guides, and Annual Examinations in Law.
1936-1937
29
Book-Law
This box contains tentative drafts on security, judgements, trusts property, and evidence.
30
Books-Law
This box includes the American Law Institute, and tentative drafts on Property Law.
31
Books-Law
This box contains the U.S. Annotated Code, and U.S. Courts Studies.
1974-1976
32
Books-Law
This box contains Geological Surveys and Irrigation Surveys.
1899-1958
33
Books-Law
This box contains manual of surveying instructions, Geology of the Navajo Country, University of Utah papers on Anthropology, and geological surveys.
1902-1962
34
Book-Law
This box contains regulations on income, estate tax, and Subcommitte Hearing on the Omnibus Judgeship Bill.
1937-1978
35
Books-Law
This box contains Law and Tactics in Federal Criminal Cases, and court procedures manuals.
1963-1976
36
Books-Law
This box contains Kirchney's cases on mortgages, Shawcross and Beaumont on Air Law, Hofstra Saw Review, and U.S. Stamp Album.
1924-1938
37
Books-Playbills
This box contains theater playbills and travel guides.
1901-1927
38
Books-Miscellaneous
This box contains lecture outlines, legal reviews, and political tracts.
1928-1977

Legal MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
47
Law Practice
This box contains information about Structural Steel and Forge Co. and Hawaiian Equipment Co.
1935-1949
52
Law Practice
This box contains Structural Steel and Forge Co. business papers.
1941-1948
53
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about the Paramount v. Paramount Salt Lake Theater Co. and other cases.
1941-1947
54
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about Powers v. Williams and other cases.
1944-1947
55
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about RFC v. Aluminum Inc. and other cases.
1944-1946
56
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about U.S. v. Spilsbury and other cases.
1945-1947
57
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about Tahatras v. Bowles and other cases.
1945
58
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about the following court cases: U.S. v. Tooele Co. land; Palfreyman v. Geneva Stell; Stokes v. Derounian; Harris v. Connecticut Fire Insurance, Jay v. Chicago Bridge Iron; U.S. v. Fisher; Bennion v. New York Life Insurance; Walker Mining Co., U.S. v. Swingle; U.S. v. Jensen; U.S. v. Lewis; U.S. v. Pitts and Chase.
1945-1947
59
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about Bratt v. Western Airlines; U.S. v. Daley; and Odgen land cases.
1943-1947
60
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about the following court cases: Woods v. Smith; Woolbright v. Stafford; Christensen v. Nothern Assurance; Woods v. Anderson; Stevenson v. Hansen; U.S. v. Stinson; Mtn. City Copper v. Korth; Swaner v. Olsen; U.S. v. Jones; Palfreyman v. Geneva Steel; Reynolds v. Denver and Rio Grande; and U.S. v. Gates.
1948
61
Court Exhibits
This box contains information about the following court cases: U.S. v. Therman; Maragakis v. U.S.; Williams v. Telluride; Dole v. Travelers Insurance; Russel v. U.S.; Feltstedt v. Robinson; U.S. Smelting v. Brigham Metals; Christensen v. Meservy; Fountain v. Lincoln National Life; Hatch v. Denver and Rio Grande; and Larson v. Korth.
1948-1950
62
Court Exhibits
This box contains information on the following court cases: Hannah v. U.S.; Mineral Resources v. Garrick; Trent v. Barnes; Scarborough v. LDS Church; U.S. v. Stitt; U.S. v. Linck; Ohio Coffee Co.; Womacott v. Denver and Rio Grande; Andersen v. U.S. and Hendrick; Mt. Hood Stages; Equitable Life v. Murdock; Fesler v. U.S.; Olsen v. Givans; Karrens v. E.W. Frank Co.
1950
63
Court Exhibits
This box contains information on the following court cases: National Metal and Steel v. Moon Lake Electric Assn.; Miller v. U.S.; American National Insurance v. Tracy; Snow v. Powell; U.S. v. Dunn; U.S. v. Nalder; U.S. v. Knudsen; Sears v. Chittock; Baker v. U.S.; Robertson v. U.S.; U.S. v. Friedman; Wyoming Pacific Oil v. Prince; U.S. v. Waldren; U.S. v. Bergera.
1950
64
Papers Concerning Individuals
This box contains petitions, transcripts, and assignments.
1969-1971
65
Papers Concerning Individuals
This box contains information about the following individuals: Joseph Alisto, Daniel Alsop, and Judge Aldon Anderson.
1968-1976
66
Papers Concerning Individuals
This box contains information about the Frontier v. Bluebell Case.
1951-1954

Subject FilesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
67
A-E
This box contains tax records for A.A. Covey, Lowery Anderson, and Stanley Bradshaw.
1937-1949
68
F-Finlay
This box contains information about Stanley Bradshaw (tax records), Cloutz case, Cyril Callister, R.W. Frank, and the Walter Granger election contest.
1941-1967
69
Finlay Trust
1935-1951
70
Finlay-Fq
This box contains information about F.E. Finlay (tax records) and Robert Hinckley Inc.
1935-1951
71
Fr-Franklin
This box includes court records, information about Franklin Mint, examinars' reports, and funeral sermon.
1954-1974
72
Subject Files
This box includes correspondence, blueprints, correspondence with Elbert Thomas, and home building plans.
1959-1963
73
Subject Files
This box contains correspondence, court correspondence, information on Elbert Thomas' campaign, and Court of Appeals.
1944-1977
74
Subject Files
This box contains correspondence from 1970-1977.
1970-1977
75
H
This box contains correspondence from 1963-1976.
1963-1976
76
H-Immigration
1938-1975
77
Immigration-Judicial
1959-1977
78
Jurors-M
1969-1977
79
M-N
80
O-Petrofsky
1969-1976
81
Peterson and Law Clerk Applications
82
Pf-O
This box contains Law Clerk Applications, probation office materials, and prison matters.
1969-1977
83
Subject Files
This box contains the Northern Division Court Calendars through the years 1967-1971.
1967-1971
84
R-S
1950-1976
85
Speedy Trial Plan-Schick
1944-1976
86
Schick-University of Chicago
1958-1976
87
Sen. Tydings to U.S. Court of Appeals
1954-1976
88
U.S. Justice Dept.-Utah State Bar
1958-1976
89
V-West Publishing
1957-1975
90
Wycoff-end
1958-1976

Miscellaneous PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
91
Papers
This box contains information about Ford v. Ritter, Plaintiff motion, briefs, news-clippings, and Joesph Smith Papyri.
1966-1974
92
Papers
This box contains correspondence with H. Rogers and D. McKay.
1962-1971

Jury FilesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
93
Instructions
1959
94
Instructions and Selections
1954-1968
95
Grand Jury
1965-1977
96
Grand Jury Transcripts
1970-1972
97
Grand Jury Transcripts
1970-1971
98
Grand Jury Transcripts
1970-1971
99
Grand Jury Transcripts and El Paso Case Correspondence
1964-1970
100
Grand Jury Papers and Bluebell v. Frontier Papers
1952-1976

Court PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
101
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains courtroom renovation papers (1974-1977) and communications with Judge Sherman Christensen (1968-1971).
1968-1977
102
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains communications with Judge Sherman Christensen.
1948-1961
103
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains communications with Judge Sherman Christensen (1962-1965) and correspondence with Stephen Chandler (1962-1966).
1962-1966
104
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains bench book papers (1969) and court administrative papers (1971-1976).
1969-1977
105
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains court administrative and personnel papers.
1959-1977
106
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains court administrative papers and invoices.
1969-1975
107
Court Administrative Papers
1964-1975
108
Court Administrative Papers
1976-1977
109
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains Law Week, journal articles, and other publications.
1893-1977
110
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains The Bulletin and other publications.
1953-1980
111
Court Administrative Papers
This box contains Julius Petrofsky court papers, prison investigation papers, and parole papers.
1957-1974
112-114
Court Administrative Papers
This boxes contain Julius Petrofsky court case papers.
1972-1975
115
Court-Related Correspondence
1926-1958
116
Miscellaneous Court Papers
1943-1957
117
Court-Related Correspondence
1946-1976
118
Court Briefs, Notes, and Letters
1954-1976
119
Court Orders and Opinions
1950-1973
120-121
Miscellaneous Court Papers
1952-1959
122
Court of Appeals Records
1954-1955
123
Miscellaneous Court Papers
1958-1969
124
Bankruptcy Matters, German Embassy
1960-1969
125-128
Miscellaneous Court Papers
1959-1978
129
Criminal Justice Act
1964
130
Court Briefs and Transcripts
1961-1966
131
Court Papers, General
This box contains court transcripts.
1964-1970
132
Court Papers, General
This box includes court-related correspondence.
1965-1971
133
Miscellaneous Court Papers
1969
134
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains information about Arizona Bank, Elma Foley, Mary Adams, Blue Ribbon Mining, Utah Valley Hospital, Dan Berman, Oil Shale Investments, and Idaho Wage Labor Claims.
1945-1981
135
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains about the Chandler v. O'Brien trail, grand jury charge, Cohen v. Matheson, First Security Bank, Society of Professional Journalists, and Shell Oil.
1970-1977
136
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains the Texas Gulf Sulpher, court briefs, and calendars.
1970-1978
137
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains court briefs, transcripts, and news clippings.
1975-1978
138
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains speeches, court rules, summaries, questionnaires, and reports.
1970-1976
139
Miscellaneous Court Papers
The box contains briefs, petitions, motions, wills, speeches and Park City Mine Report.
1971-1981
140
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains exhibits, petitions, calendars, and orders.
1971-1976
141
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains court-related correspondence.
1949-1976
142
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains information about Shell v. Ritter, Bonneville v. Merrill Lynch, Pacific Engineering v. Kerr-McGee, Anderson and Barclay v. SLC, Barker v. Ritter, Smith v. Utah Board of Education, SLC v. Ritter, Magistrate AM Ferro, and draft papers.
1971-1974
143
Federal Jucicial Center Documents
1972-1975
144
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains transcripts, court manuals, and a LDS College case.
1973-1977
145-148
Court Calendars
1973-1975
149
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains insurance records, informations about the Fort Douglas Officers Club, information about Carl Draper, correspondence, clippings, bankruptcy papers, Court of Appeals information, and administrative papers.
1970-1978
150
Court Petitions and Briefs
1974
151
American Gypsum Case
1975
152
Court Petitons
153
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box contains U.S. v. Hoffman information, financial records, court orders, and correspondence.
1970-1978
154
Court Motions, Petitions, and Appeals
1976
155
Court Opinions
1976-1977
156
Court Reports
1976-1977
157
Court Correspondence, Appeals, and Exhibits
1977-1978
158
Senate Bills
1953-1960
159
Senate Bills
1976
160
Miscellaneous Court Papers
This box consists of congressional judicial action papers, American Bar Association, Utah Bar Association, and Dinner Program.
1951-1978

Tax Files, 1956-1974Return to Top

Container(s): Box 161-170

Tax Laws and Reports, 1972Return to Top

Container(s): Box 168-169

Tax Bulletins, 1972Return to Top

Container(s): Box 170

Tax Rules, 1972Return to Top

Container(s): Box 171

Tax Bulletins, 1972Return to Top

Container(s): Box 172

Rainbow Bridge Case, 1974Return to Top

Container(s): Box 173-174

Thousand Springs Farm Correspondence, 1951-1957Return to Top

Container(s): Box 175

Thousand Springs Farm Papers, 1954-1974Return to Top

Container(s): Box 176

This box contains depositions, correspondence, disbursements, payroll taxes, and court records.

Thousand Springs Farm Correspondence, 1955-1960Return to Top

Container(s): Box 177

Thousand Springs Farm Dispute, 1951-1957Return to Top

Container(s): Box 178

This box contains correspondence, invoices, and court records.

Thousand Springs Farm Correspondence, 1955-1975Return to Top

Container(s): Box 179-180

Thousand Springs Farm Dispute Court Records, 1955-1976Return to Top

Container(s): Box 181-182

Thousand Springs Farm Receipts and Correspondence, 1959-1961Return to Top

Container(s): Box 183

Thousand Springs Farm Dispute, 1960-1977Return to Top

Container(s): Box 184-189

These boxes contain correspondence, court records, exhibits, Standal-Lemon dispute, and other documents.

Thousand Springs Farm Dispute Court Records, 1955-1976Return to Top

Container(s): Box 184-185

Thousand Springs FarmReceipts and Correspondence, 1959-1961Return to Top

Container(s): Box 186

Thousand Springs Farm Dispute, 1960-1977Return to Top

Container(s): Box 187-189

These boxes contain correspondence, court records, exhibits, Standal-Lemon dispute, and other documents.

Thousand Springs Farm Invoices, 1966-1969Return to Top

Container(s): Box 190

Thousand Springs Farm Papers, 1967-1976Return to Top

Container(s): Box 191

This box contains information about the island controversy and farmer applicants.

Thousand Springs Farm Dispute Court RecordsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 192

Thousand Springs Farms Standal-Lemon Dispute, 1970-1972Return to Top

Container(s): Box 193

Thousand Springs Farm Invoices, 1970-1976Return to Top

Container(s): Box 194

Farm InformationReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 195

Dairy Distributors, 1952-1954Return to Top

Container(s): Box 196

This box contains financial records.

Diary Distributors, 1953-1956Return to Top

Container(s): Box 197

This box contains financial records, invoices, and other records.

Diary Distributors, 1954-1955Return to Top

Container(s): Box 198

This box contains invoices.

Diary Distributors, 1955Return to Top

Container(s): Box 199

This box contains truck reports.

Diary Distributors, 1955Return to Top

Container(s): Box 200

This box contains dispersed checks.

Travel Files, Hawaii and Berlin, 1953-1955Return to Top

Container(s): Box 201

Travel Files, Munich, 1954Return to Top

Container(s): Box 202

Travel Files, Bonn, 1954Return to Top

Container(s): Box 203

Travel Files, Bonn, Munster, Hamburg, 1954Return to Top

Container(s): Box 204

Travel Files, Heidelberg and Berlin, 1954Return to Top

Container(s): Box 205

Travel Files, Berlin, 1955Return to Top

Container(s): Box 206

Miscellaneous Files, 1962-1974Return to Top

Container(s): Box 207

This box contains check stubs, cancelled checks, and christmas cards.

Miscellaneous FilesReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 208

This box contains University notebooks.

Miscellaneous Files, 1974-1977Return to Top

Container(s): Box 210

This box contains farm invoices and check stubs.

Miscellaneous Files, 1934-1972Return to Top

Container(s): Box 211-215

This box contains newspapers with articles concerning Ritter.

Miscellaneous FilesReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 216

This box contains photographs, including portrait photographs of Ritter, and photographs of 1000 Springs Farm.

Container(s) Description Dates
Folder
1
Artwork by Luistelipe
1951
2
Artwork- Jack Sears
3
Artwork-"Wild Flowers of America" Mary Walcott Artwork
4
Blue Print Maps- EIMCO Office Building
1941
5-6
Court Exhibits Paramount vs Paramount S.L, Theatre Co.
1941-1942
7
Plaintiff's Exhibit # 18, "Earl Carroll's Vanities"
8
Map- Property Key Map Hospital Site
1942
9
Map- Property Key Map Tooele Ordinance Storage Depot

Maps, Notes, and Photocopies, 1952Return to Top

Container(s): Box 216a

Container(s) Description Dates
Folder
1
The Bank of the Valley in Virginia
2
Envelope Opener
3
Germany Map
1952
4
Map-Snake River Area (sketch)
5
South America Map
6
Map of Thousand Spring Ranch and Vicinity
7
Notes
8
Photocopies of Photographs
Phtotgraphs were transferred to Willis W. Ritter Photograph Collection.
9
Idaho Power Plant Photograph Photocopies
10
The Springs before the Power Plant was Built
11
Stamp Collection

Miscellaneous FilesReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 217

This box contains photographs from court exhibits.

News ClippingsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 218

Miscellaneous Files, 1977-1978Return to Top

Container(s): Box 219

This box contains Time 1977 p.63, Utah Holiday, Rainbow Bridge-Case heard before Judge Ritter, Notebook-W.W. Ritter "Geology 125," Brief-U.S. Court of Appeals vs. Ritter "Seeking to Unseat Judge,: Utah Wildlife, 1978, Tribute to Judge Ritter.

Ritter Indian Rug Collection, Photos, 1962-1973Return to Top

Container(s): Box 220

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Judges--Utah
  • Lawyers--Utah

Form or Genre Terms

  • Administrative records
  • Legal documents
  • Legal files
  • Notes